About Us

Sushumna Yoga School was founded by Sonja Appel. Initially for 3 years in Delhi, then In 2008 she moved to Goa and set it up there with her partner Gita Sahni.

Sonja grew up in Zimbabwe and London. She pursued a career in the performing arts and acting, later teaching and doing workshops in acting and doing theatre in education (T.I.E). Seventeen years ago she started a regular daily yoga practice. Her first teacher was Cathy Louise Broda who inspired her to pursue the path of teaching yoga too. Three years after this she went to Mysore, India to study with Guruji - the late Shri K Pattabhi Jois. After her initial stint of three months with him at his school, she made up her mind, to one day make India her home. This materialised finally in 2005 and she has never looked back as India offers her the perfect place to embrace a yogic lifestyle.

Sonja has a B.A. in Classical Theatre and Acting and an M.A. in Contemporary Dance. She has devised a unique Yoga Teacher Training, through her constant love of learning which never stops and firmly believes that it is the onlyone that offers a grounding in all the different aspects of yoga styles: Hatha, Vinyasa Flow, Ashtanga, Kundalini, Iyengar, Pranayama, Meditation and Restorative. This is achieved with the help of four other diverse and highly experienced teachers.

Gita Sahni was brought to yoga through Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev and his world famous 'Inner engineering' programme. After many years of living in London she moved back to her birthplace of India around the same time. Years of working in the corporate world finally stopped when she decided to join Sushumna in 2008 and she successfully takes care of the business and sales & marketing.